Health And wellness

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Wednesday approved a major expansion of federally funded health coverage for children – a measure that would slam cigar manufacturers in Tampa and across the country with a big tax increase. The bill — which passed on a mostly party-line 289-139 vote — would authorize about $33 billion over …

Part two of a three-part series WASHINGTON — Questions about John McCain’s temperament arose during his presidential bid in 2000, in which he was defeated for the GOP nomination by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush. A page one story in The New York Times on Oct. 25, 1999, first turned McCain’s temper into a campaign issue, according …

WASHINGTON — Hit by a wave of planned Republican retirements, House GOP leaders find themselves at the helm of a leaky political ship as this fall’s congressional elections approach. Not since 1958 – a half-century ago – has a political party in the House minority faced such an uphill battle to merely keep the number …

Tito Munoz, or “Tito the Builder” as he dubbed himself, may have made his national political debut in Virginia with Sarah Palin Monday, but the McCain campaign declined to make him available for interviews that day, saying he did not like the media. Today the Prince William County construction company owner, Tito Munoz, was back …